1. FINDING NON-FICTION BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

2. How are non-fiction books organised? BY THEIR SUBJECT

3. NON-FICTION BOOKS ARE GROUPED ON THE SHELVES BY SUBJECT. EACH SUBJECT THEN HAS A NUMBER CALLED THE CLASSIFICATION NUMBER WHICH IS ON THE SPINE OF THE BOOK. (This is also known as the ‘call number’. ) SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE DECIMAL NUMBERS THIS HELPS TO KEEP EVERYTHING IN ORDER AND ALSO HELPS YOU TO FIND THE BOOKS YOU NEED.

4. 000 Generalities 100 Philosophy and Psychology 200 Religion 300 Social Science 400 Language 500 Natural Science and Mathematics 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) 700 Arts, Music and Sport 800 Literature 900 Geography and History

5. FOOTBALL796 WORLD CUP796.334 SCOTLAND IN THE WORLD CUP 796.3346 Books on a similar subject start with the same number e.g. SPORT FOOTBALL796 CHESS794 FISHING799 BOOKS ON THE SAME SUBJECT CAN BE DIVIDED FURTHER INTO DECIMAL NUMBERS

6. THE MAN WHO INVENTED THIS SYSTEM FOR ORGANISING NON-FICTION BOOKS WAS CALLED MELVIL DEWEY IT IS NAMED AFTER HIM AND CALLED – THE DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

7. THE BOOKS ARE PLACED ON THE SHELVES FROM THE SMALLEST NUMBER TO THE HIGHEST

8. Question ?????????????? We now know how the books are organised on the shelves however……. How do we find out who is the author of a fiction book ? How do we find out which number a non-fiction book has?

9. LIBRARY CATALOGUE The library catalogue tells you what resources the library has and where to find them. It tells you the authors, titles, subjects and classification numbers of books. You can access the library catalogue from any computer in the school or there is a link on the home page of this site.